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The Host/Pathogen Interaction Programme is wholly funded by the Wellcome Trust and is centred around sleeping sickness in cattle in Africa. Trypanosomiasis in cattle is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma congolense and Trypanosoma vivax and carried by the tsetse fly. An area of Africa, often called 'the tsetse belt', covers approximately ten million square kilometres and within this area trypanomiasis, or sleeping sickness, is endemic. This disease is a major constraint on cattle production which is the main source of income for many small farmers.

Liverpool Santa Dash: Sunday 2nd December 2007

Anthea, Derek, Harry, Helen & Kate from the Liverpool team (together with colleagues, family and friends) gathered by the Liver Buildings in the threatening rain to take part the Liverpool Santa Dash on the 2nd December. In the event, the weather calmed down and we all had fun - all 6,000 santas. This year the team were raising funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care (in memory of Gill Watts) and have so far raised £907. The website is still open for donations at Team Tortoise Just Giving Webpage.

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5th Whole Team Meeting, Paris: Monday 22 October 2007

This year the annual meeting was held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Animal Genomics for Animal Health, held at the OIE headquarters in Paris. As time was short only very brief presentations were given of work recently undertaken and the focus of the afternoon session was on publication planning and priorities for work in the final stages of the Wellcome Trust grant. The group also welcomed Dr Oh, a Korean collaborator currently working at ILRI. Staff were able to get together informally over a meal on Sunday night and many members of the group attended and presented at the symposium (23-25 October).

From left to right: (back row) Andy Brass, Alan Archibald, Ivan Morrison, David McHugh (UCD guest); (middle row) Steve Kemp, Susan Ansell, Katie Rennie, Lilian Wambua, Harry Noyes, Luke Thomas, Sungjong Oh (Korean guest); (front row) Morris Agaba, Stephen Park (UCD guest), Helen Hulme, Laurence Hall & Olivier Hanotte.

Liverpool Santa Dash: December 2006

Derek, Harry & Kate from the Liverpool team (together with colleagues, family and friends) joined in the Liverpool Santa Dash on 3rd December. This year the team were raising funds for Amnesty International and raised £295.

4rd Whole Team Meeting, Roslin: November 2006

The whole team met, once again, at The Roslin Institute on 21st & 22nd November for its annual get together. Numerous posters were on display and presentations were made. Once again, staff from David McHugh's lab at University College Dublin were able to join us. It was also a pleasure to be joined for the meeting by a representative from The Wellcome Trust, Dr Michael Chew.

From left to right: Kate Goodheart, David McHugh (UCD guest), Lilian Wambua, Andy Brass, Jan Naessens, Alan Archibald, Katie Rennie, Helen Hulme, John Gibson, Luke Thomas, Ivan Morrison, Harry Noyes, Stephen Park (UCD guest), Michael Chew, Richard Talbot, Steve Kemp.

image courtesy of Norrie Russell

Workshop in Nairobi: 8-9 June 2006

The workshop, discussed at the whole team meeting in 2005, went ahead on Thursday and Friday 8th & 9th June at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi. A number of key researchers assisted us at this workshop and, as a result of their enthusiasm and hard work, the meeting was productive and fruitful. The workshop ran in conjunction with a wider-ranging trypanosomiasis meeting organised by The Doyle Foundation and which took place on 6th an 7th June, also at ILRI. The workshop was jointly funded by The Doyle Foundation, The Wellcome Trust & ILRI.

Presentations given by delegates are available at the Doyle Foundation Website.

Short movie clips of interviews given during the meetings are available at the ILRI Website.

(top row, left to right): Neil Stahl, Gabrielle Persley, Olivier Hanotte, Declan McKeever, Steve Kemp, Mike Lehane, Jayne Raper, Caleb Orenge, Alan Archibald, Sarah Nyongesa, Hassan Musa, Judith Allen, Andy Brass, Sam Black, Catherine Fletcher, Katie Rennie, David Perez-Morga, Dan Bradley, Stephen Park, Patrick de Baetselier, John Gibson, Joseph Nganga & John Donelson (Chair).

(bottom row, left to right): Kate Goodheart, Nemwel Nyamweya, Grace O'Gorman, Morris Agaba, Moses Ogugo, Joel Mwakaya, Jan Naessens, John Wambugu, Sandy McClintoch, Helen Hulme, Harry Noyes & Margaret Macdonald-Levy.

image by Studio Unique Imaging, Nairobi

Wellcome Trust Host-Pathogen Mini Planning Meeting in Nairobi: February 2006

A number of small meetings of some project staff at ILRI, Manchester and Liverpool took place in Nairobi in February 2006. Methods of handling and communicating the large amounts of data being generated by the consortium were discussed along with plans for the proposed workshop in Summer 2006 with experts from a range of associated fields.

Liverpool Santa Dash: December 2005

A few of the team from Liverpool (together with colleagues, family and friends) joined in Liverpool's attempt at breaking the Santa Dash record on 4th December. Over 4000 people dressed up as Santa and ran (or walked) the 5km route around Liverpool City Centre. The team of 13 runners (some of whom are pictured below) raised £725.18 for the PSS Family Resource Centre & Toy Library. No prizes for spotting Derek, Harry and Kate.

image courtesy of PSS

3rd Whole Team Meeting, Roslin: November 2005

The whole team met once again at The Roslin Institute on 2nd & 3rd November for its annual get together. Numerous presentations were made and concrete plans for the future were decided.

Those attending included: Morris Agaba, Susan Ansell, Alan Archibald, Anthea Broadhead, Steve Brown, Derek Daly, John Gibson, Kate Goodheart, Laurence Hall, Helen Hulme, Steve Kemp, David McHugh (UCD), Declan McKeever, Ivan Morrison, Ian Morton, Harry Noyes, Stephen Park (UCD), Gabrielle Persley (The Doyle Foundation), Katie Rennie, Richard Talbot, Alan Teale.

Lipid Mechanisms Meeting in Liverpool: July 2005

A number of project staff got together in Liverpool in July to discuss the current understanding of lipid mechanisms in trypanotolerance and how this relates to the data now being generated by the project. Douglas Tocher from Stirling University also kindly contributed to the workshop discussions.

Planning Meeting in Liverpool: February 2005

A meeting of a number of project staff took place in Liverpool in February. The project is now handling large amounts of data and this meeting made decisions about the project in the light of the new information being generated.

Whole Team Meeting in Roslin: November 2004

The 2nd meeting of most of the team, together with two of the specialist advisory board, was held at The Roslin Institute, Midlothian on 3rd and 4th November 2004 and reviewed progress and results. Representatives of the diverse disciplines within the project gave presentations on Day One, followed by a hearty Scottish dinner at a local hostelry. Day Two involved brainstorming sessions and discussions to formulate future plans. In particular, the decision to organise a major workshop in 2005/2006 to discuss and assess our preliminary results with a group of experts from other fields not represented in the group (for instance, immunologists, biochemists, parasitologists and mathematicians) who we feel would have valuable insights into the significance and analysis of our data.

From left to right: Fuad Iraqi, Richard Talbot, Kate Goodheart, Harry Noyes Susan Anderson, Dave McHugh (UCD guest), Declan McKeever, Morris Agaba, Anthea Broadhead, Grace O'Gorman (UCD guest) Andy Brass, Katie Rennie, Ian Morton, Ivan Morrison, John Gibson, Gail Middlemas, Alan Teale, Alan Archibald, Helen Hulme and Steve Kemp.

Whole Team Meeting in Roslin: April 2003

The entire Consortium and Specialist Advisory Board met in April 2003 at the Roslin Institute, Midlothian. The meeting was able to lay the foundations for the development of the work of the project for the year ahead.

From left to right: Declan McKeever, Dave MacHugh, Noel Murphy, Dave Burt, Ann Kenyon, Ivan Morrison, Harry Noyes, John Gibson, John Quackenbush, Morris Agaba, Olivier Hanotte, Richard Talbot, Pauline Ambrose, Ian Morton, Steve Brown, Steve Kemp, Katie Rennie, Alan Archibald, Alan Teale, Helen Hulme, David Mburu and Anthea Broadhead.

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